If you’re like me, you’ve been eagerly anticipating the release of captive-bred Spix’s little blue macaws, Cyanopsitta spixii, back into their ancestral home in Brazil. These parrots are amongst the ...

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All Spix's macaws are majestically blue in the blazing sun of Brazil's Northeast, but each bird is distinct to Candice and Cromwell Purchase. As the parrots soar squawking past their home, the couple ...

Can a species bounce back from being "extinct in the wild"? The blue-winged macaw is showing how it can be done.

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The first step in returning a blue-winged macaw (Primolius maracana) to the Misiones rainforest in Argentina takes place in Dante Di Nucci's office. There, the veterinarian at the Güira Oga Wildlife ...

A Spix's macaw lands on a tree in a breeding facility project in its native habitat in a rural area of Curaca, Bahia state, Brazil, Tuesday, March 12, 2024. CURACA, Brazil (AP) — All Spix's macaws are ...

Candice and Cromwell Purchase have dedicated their adult lives to saving the Spix’s macaw, a critically endangered species. Efforts to reintroduce Spix’s macaws into the wild have faced challenges, ...